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Dinosaurs 101. Anthropology, Archaeology, Geography, Social Studies. Scientists estimate over a thousand dinosaur species once roamed Earth. Learn which ones were the largest and the smallest, what dinosaurs ate and how they behaved, as well as surprising facts about their extinction.
Quick facts about dinosaurs for kids and grown-ups! Find out what dinosaurs ate, how they may have behaved, what they may have looked like, and more.
Oct 27, 2009 · Pre-History. Dinosaurs. By: History.com Editors. Updated: June 29, 2023 | Original: October 27, 2009. copy page link. Print Page. Lia Toby/Getty Images. The prehistoric reptiles known as...
Find out facts about dinosaurs, including Diplodocus and Stegosaurus, and uncover what science is revealing about the appearance and lives of these prehistoric animals. Discover dinosaur news, videos, quizzes and crafts.
Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that first appeared about 245 million years ago. They dominated the planet until an extinction event wiped out a large swath of life on Earth about 66 million years ago. But now we know that the Age of Dinosaurs never ended.
Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million years (more than 160 million years in some parts of the world). They evolved diverse shapes and sizes, from the fearsome giant Spinosaurus to the chicken-sized Microraptor, and were able to survive in a variety of ecosystems.
Popular fascination with the giant reptiles grew, reaching a peak in the 1850s with the first attempts to reconstruct the three animals on which Owen based Dinosauria— Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, and Hylaeosaurus —for the first world exposition, the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London’s Crystal Palace.
